Peruvian customs officials have seized a record-breaking shipment of illegal mercury, exposing a cross-border smuggling ...

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Arturo Suarez, detained for months in El Salvador after U.S. allegations of gang membership, reunited with family in Caracas, ...

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Scientists have developed a drone-based counting method that corrected major errors in traditional wildlife surveys. Researchers from the University of Florida have created a more precise method for ...

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